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While no structure can be entirely immune to damage from earthquakes, the goal of earthquake resistant structures is to survive strong shaking with minimal damage.

Give a slight push along the sides of a cube. You will notice that the cube is not rigid enough to withstand the nudge. This implies that it is the quality of material at the joints and not the property of the structure itself that makes buildings with similar structural construction sturdier.

Take a tetrahedron, apply force along its edges. The structure remains unfaltered. Their stiff edges make them inherently rigid . Application of this structure in fields like structural engineering is due to this very property.

Similarly, apply force along the edges of the octahedron and the cube with face diagonals. Observe its stability.